BF 1942 / Vietnam

[L3wsTh3rin]

I only was able to play for 5 minutes or so, but in that time, there were no real stretch effects. At least there were none of the effects that were there when it first ran at 800/600. I'll be playing most of the night tonight, and i'll give a more detailed report after that if i have time, but it seems to be the exact same situation as the original battlefield, so it shouldn't be problem.

[Thoth]

Cool, looking forward to it.

[Thoth]

Okay, anyone else have any info on the stretch subject? Is it like BF1942?

[scotty]

I am still trying to get Battlefield to run at 960x540. Firts, it won't let me delete my custom profile...Second, how does one go about editing the video.con files...I can find them but I cannot open them?????

[hunterbfv]

are there news for bfv? :roll:

[Nutty_McShithead]

I will try to run the mod today, but the question remains, do we get moree game screen or does it just stretch. I am running BFV on my dell inspiron 8500 with a 1680x1050 max resolution. BF1942 and BFV run fine fullscreen, but it's stretched. looks fine but i can tell the different if i move to a regular monitor. So does this fix the stretch problem?

[dripgoss]

I'm interested in this one too... Still looks stretched to me for now...

[Sociopath]

If anyone can figure out how to adjust the FOV we might be able to get rid of the stretched look.

If anyone knows or finds out please post it!

[dripgoss]

Yeah, I have 1680x1050 and just tried to set res manually in the .con files to 1280x768 thinking that would still do 16:9 but then stretch up to 1680x1050...

Didn't work.

It just stretched the screen past the viewable area so the right and bottom of the game were "hanging over the edge" of the screen so to speak...

Is that an FOV issue?

[Paradigm Shifter]

Come to think of it, I did also OC the 9600 from 309/195 to 354/240 with Radlinker so maybe that has something to do with the preformance increase too... :)

:D I would say "that's cheatin'!" but whatever works. :wink:

And that's a pretty big OC for a laptop... how much hotter is it running?

[dripgoss]

:D I would say "that's cheatin'!" but whatever works. :wink: And that's a pretty big OC for a laptop... how much hotter is it running?

I think you jinxed me shifter! :) After I wrote that post last night, I fired up BFV and started getting artifacts.. :( So now I'm back down to 342/240 stable... (still not too shaby)

As for heat, just doing inernet and word doc stuff, it doesn't get very hot, but when editing in flash or playing a game, it always got pretty warm from the first day I got it so it's really hard to tell. I only game for about an hour or two at a time when I do on the laptop, so I don't push it for hours on end at like a lan party or something. Plus, I bought one of those aluminum Antec laptop tray cooler thingys and that seems to make it less hot... Unfortunately, with no way to mount an internal thermometer, I'll never know when too hot is indeed too hot...

[dripgoss]

And I got the idea to OC that far from a guy on Rage3D.com that claimed the GPU in this R3000T is a 9600 Pro that's actually underclocked to make it more stable. Who knows, but I bumped it up incrementally and sure enough, it capped out last night at 354/240!!

[Nutty_McShithead]

hey guys, i have a dell inspiron 8500 laptop and i use a program i8kfan. its a GUI that was made for this line of computers specifically so i dont know if it will work on anything else. but maybe someone knows of a program out there that you can use to see the actual temperature of the computer. the fans are regulated by internal temperatures that the BIOS is aware of, so maybe theres some sort of program for your computer that is able to get that information. I have this beast overclocked a bit and it runs warm when doing normal things like web browsing or what not but i made sure that even overclocked, my temperatures didnt reach 75 degrees. I think this is an overly cautious threshhold for temperature, but i get pretty good performance out of it so there no need to push it past what you are comfortable with.
layter

[Paradigm Shifter]

I think you jinxed me shifter! :)

Sorry! :lol: I didn't mean to! :)

After I wrote that post last night, I fired up BFV and started getting artifacts.. :( So now I'm back down to 342/240 stable... (still not too shabby)

Indeed not. That's still a pretty drastic OC. For a laptop, anyway. I'm too nervous with my equipment to oveclock. If I fried it by accident, I don't have enough money to replace what gets cooked. :wink:

As for heat, just doing inernet and word doc stuff, it doesn't get very hot, but when editing in flash or playing a game, it always got pretty warm from the first day I got it so it's really hard to tell. I only game for about an hour or two at a time when I do on the laptop, so I don't push it for hours on end at like a lan party or something. Plus, I bought one of those aluminum Antec laptop tray cooler thingys and that seems to make it less hot... Unfortunately, with no way to mount an internal thermometer, I'll never know when too hot is indeed too hot...

True. Well, if it doesn't obviously toast, then it should be OK. :wink:

Oh yeah... Nutty... you're right: the I8Kfangui program only works with the Dell's. I don't know if there is anything available that similar for HP laptops or anything, but I tried out MotherBoard Monitor, and it had no idea what any of the fans or temps were. :(

[Nutty_McShithead]

hey Paradigm shifter, you have anything to do with that Paradigm Shift Battlefield 1942 server??

[Sociopath]

dripgoss

Nice work on finding the FOV thing , your setting work great for me!

[Paradigm Shifter]

hey Paradigm shifter, you have anything to do with that Paradigm Shift Battlefield 1942 server??

No, sorry. :wink:

Don't play BF1942. Don't have the money to run any servers, either. :lol:

I occasionally (read: very occasionally) played Unreal 2 Extended Multiplayer, and you used to be able to find me on a couple of Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight servers... but that was a long time ago. I tend to play offline now... mainly because I've not had the time to play, and have got crap. :lol:

[Tweaked]

BF:V runs perfectly in 16x9 when i set it to 1360x768 in my .con files.

3d isnt stretched, everything is perfectly proportional.

2d is stretched, but i'm not worried about it.

[Sociopath]

BF:V runs perfectly in 16x9 when i set it to 1360x768 in my .con files.

3d isnt stretched, everything is perfectly proportional.

2d is stretched, but i'm not worried about it.

How are you getting that to work?

Everytime I try that res in BFV it goes back to the default 800X600 when it starts, also tried it BF1942 and the same thing happens. I even tred to change the res in the default videocustom.con to 1360X768 and it still starts up at 800X600. The closest thing to wide I can get is 1280X960.

[dripgoss]

Are you write protecting the files after you edit them? If not, I think BFV/1942 tries to default them again...

I'm playing BFV currently at 1680x1050x32bit (not stretched) with grfx on low and getting around 45fps. The only thing that's anoying is the 2D stretch...